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OMG! Such an amazing weekend! I am working on my review now and pictures as well 
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| Originally posted by Lomeli Did anyone see when one of the A&B guys fell from the float? I actually caught him before he hit the ground. I don't know how it happened. Maybe he lost his footing while he was handing out signed flyers. If he hit the ground, he would have been seriously hurt, would've had a broken rib or wrist. After I caught him, he asked if I was ok. I said yea, and asked him the same thing. He said yea and gave me a hug. I was a hero!  |
THANKS FOR THE VIDEOS 
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| Originally posted by DaveT That has to be wrong. There was 37,000 when final estimates were done last year and I thought there were A LOOOOOOOOOOTTT more people this year....things were crazy shoulder to shoulder pakced at points for most floats. The treet/concession area in the middle sorta gave off the feeling that it wasn't as packed when you look at it from any one point of view, but if you walked around... Dave |
Civic Center Plaza has a 50,000 person capacity and throughout most of the day it was full...say maybe at any given point it was 40,000 people, but I'd except that tons of people rolled in and out of the area throughout the day....I'd say probably 70,000-80,000.
Yeah the news estimates of the crowd are not accurate.. there had to be over 40K people.
This spot reserved for Electrophile's review 
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| Originally posted by squirrelly No but I did see the guy behind me jacking off... butt ass fucking naked... just whackin' it.. like no one else was around.  |
. cool guy and man was he fucked up. he kept eating all of our pot brownies and beer, and god knows what else. i went up to him later and tried to talk to him, he said "sorry mate i'm a bit drunk" LOL i was like "dude...you ate my brownies i know your not drunk"
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| Originally posted by dj_bas was i the only TA at the PVD afterparty? |
Friday night at Mezzanine: Lee Burridge was funky - not my speed but that's cool. The Funktion One system was lacking a lil' in the bass department but sounded especially good in the mid-mid high range depending on your location on the floor. In another thread titled something like "Lee Burridge review" I mention that the male to female ratio was 20.7/1. That part was brutal!! It also was a tad steamy in there.
The Love Parade: Festive and fun. Victor and I rode in on the XM float. Steve Porter was great on the Ingrooves float. Bumped into Chris and Kai and loads of other great people, old friends, and the usual nocturnal suspects. It was refreshing to see a few fellow NY'kers in town. I ate a chicken sandwhich that might have been a pigeon turd sandwich. Lots of weird shit to see. I saw some dude walking around with some kind of genital pouch and nothing else - it looked like it could have been called a "cock sock" or something. The weather was very pleasant the whole weekend and that was a bonus for SF in late Sept. Downtown has some really high-end shopping. I was surprised to find a Hermes store. I thought you would only see that on Rodeo Drive. Spundae and Skills put on an entertaining float from beginning to end. The EAW/Crown sound was the fullest I heard at LP although there were a few close rivals such as Mighty's (I believe it was) Funktion One set-up which comprised of a pair of triple stacked bass bins in mono and two pairs of three ways in stereo. That gear sounded clean and well rounded when they were dropped it on the ground in the square.
The Official Love Parade Afterparty: Too many 13-15 y.o. all over the place - a big lawsuit waiting to happen. Entry was completely disorganized and an unecessarily cumbersome process. Too much bullshit! The promoters risked getting shut down IMO, because it was obvious that by the obvious disorganization (whomever responsible for it) inbound would translate to a catastrophe in the event of an emergency evacuation due to lack of preparedness. In fact, I'm inclined to state that it was so poorly managed that the San Francisco Fire Authority unjustly risked lives by letting the party happen the way that the entry indicated it did. Also, I'm certain that some patrons waited at least 2 hours to get inside once 10PM rolled around. We Stayed for a total of 15 minutes during which time I got a hot dog and a Pepsi. We didn't stay long enough to finish the 16oz Pepsis. I'm sure the talent did great. It was a nice line-up. I only regret not staying long enough to see Piet and Jaspa.
After we left the OLPAP, we went over to a little spot around Ceasar Chavez and 15th called Mighty. The legal capacity was 506 but at peak there were easily 750 people inside alone. It was crammedThe room was very hot so we spent the whole time outside in the smoking area inside this gutted out school bus with a cozy couch. The Fire Department crawled by a couple of times. Got to meet a few cool locals there. One guy Josh smuggled some wine in. Not only was it rich and delicious, but the perfect company to my state of being in the universe at that time. The music inside was horrible unless you are into butchered gospel electronica (or whatever it was). Outside there was 70s and 80s tunes playing and it was a big improvement over the cacaphonous massacre occuring inside. It's a tough one when the song of the night was Rapture by Blondie featuring Fab 5 Freddy and Grandmaster Flash. The crowd was decent with the exception of a few mental midgets lumbering around with their sideways hats, thin side-burns, clown costumes and age old wannabe "gangsta" greetings such as "yo wuss up heomboy" and "yo dawg gotta smoke?". Luckily that didn't represent the majority at Mighty. We had a great time over there and had the best seats in the house.
When that closed we went to Gingerbread in a "deeper" industrial part of town. There was an upstairs and a downstairs. I hung out mostly upstairs in the smaller room. There were great vibes in there. They played breaks and deep progressive trippy house. Holy f*ck - Lots of internationally originated chemicals were floating around there the world over. Columbia, Burma, and Afghanstan particularly come to mind - no thanks to that! My favorite part of being at this place was meeting and watching an artist by the name of Jamas Welch. He was painting images with neon body paint and he had a little blacklight set-up on this couch we were siiting on. He painted whatever came to mind on the spot. He painted colorfull masks on peoples faces, and creative stuff on peoples arms, hands, and backs. One girl got a enormous butterfly on her whole back (she had a low cut spaghetti strap blouse so you could see most of it after he was done with it. I got Jamas' contact infomation, he was definitely a special person with the ability to express his passion through art. He didn't charge anyone for his work, but I gave him a little donation because it was entertaining to watch. He also paints oil on canvas and conventional artwork too. We left there at closing (I think it was 6AM or 5AM) I wasn't too particular on the time by then.
Finally it was The End UP until about 4:30 in the afternoon! I just can't even go into what a great time and loads of laughs we had there. After 9AM the real hardcore crowd rolled in. The music was great. Stereo 8 and Terry Francis destroyed the place with great progressive and deep, cracked out house. The number one selling feature of The End UP: The patio. I felt like I was in another world, secluded from San Francisco but with the San Fran people and spirit. I also met a ton of very cool locals here. Too much going on all the time. Simply put: The End Up is a MUST place to wind up when the clubs are done Saturday night. I feel sorry for anyone who didn't go there Sunday Morning. Next time I'm in town for the weekend I'll definitely miss Morning Mass for some devilish heresy.
It was a great and memorable weekend. I Spent lots of money and took a bunch of cab rides. I hope to see you all there next year and then some. We are going in full-force for Love Parade III!
Okay time for my review of the weekend, now that I've gotten some sleep in...
The weekend started out kinda crappy; freshcoast & I were taking the same flight from LAX to SFO and it was delayed about an hour. We finally landed around 11, took the BART and met kfrogger at the hotel around 12. From there on the weekend only got better. We went straight to check out Lee Burridge at the Mezzanine. It was my first time there and it was a blast. The atmosphere was cool, the bartenders made fairly good drinks, we met up with a few other TA's there, and I got to meet Bas and his girl for the first time. Cool guy (too bad you didn't get to dance with your buddy ). Afterwards we ate at Mel's Diner where our in-meal entertainment came in the form of Tigo & Tigo:
The next day freshcoast, kfrogger, and I got out to the parade around 2:00 in the afternoon. I have to say I really wasn't looking forward to this as much as I was the afterparty, but I was pleasantly surprised. The music from all the floats was thumpin, and the people were real friendly. The only thing that sucked were the old naked guys on rollerskates, especially the one that stayed right in front of us! 
The parade finally settled in the huge courtyard in front of the Civic Auditorium/City Hall. I stayed pretty much in front of the Spundae Float and had fun. Didn't do much dancing because I was trying to conserve my energy for the night. Crowd was pretty cool, not too pushy, and I saw some more TA's there. The guy who got Markus to take a pic of him + Michelle & Kris cracked me up though
Finally the afterparty came around. We got in line at 9 which sucked, because it was all the way around the corner. It took about an hour to get in. They didn't check ID's -- perhaps I was mistaken but I thought it was 18+. 
Some guy at the door tried to give me a flyer and I said "no thanks," as I walked by but then he shouted "It's got the lineup on it!" so I thanked him and grabbed one. From there I caught some of Carl Cox and DJ Dan with some wandering between the other 2 rooms in between. I hadn't heard either of these guys before but I definitely wasn't disappointed. From there it was Blank & Jones and they were throwing it down except for the power went out like 4 or 5 times! They had a sweet-ass multicolored laser in room #2 which not only looked badass from the front, but it made some tight patterns on the back wall.
Left B&J early to see Markus and from then on I was in the groove! I met a TA from Toronto with a white Tranceaddict.com shirt on, but I forgot his name. Doh! Markus got my ass shakin' but Ferry Corsten got it moving in a major way! I have to say the highlight of my night was hearing the whole, huge-ass auditorium singing the melody when Digital Punk came on. Totally awesome and it gave me chills up my spine. That was my first time seeing Ferry too and I thought it was incredible.
From there we ate at Mel's again, packed our bags at the hotel, and flew home. I took naps in between at the airport and the taxi... Then crashed hardcore til almost 11 at night. 
All I can say is that I will definitely be going to the next Love Parade! It was great seeing everyone. Good times, good times.
Edit: Oh yeah, can't forget about the couple having stand up sex in the middle of the dance floor during Ferry's set...
i am totally in the middle of that markus video. that rocks.
and if you need more hosting let me know, I have space and bandwidth.
my pics coming soon@!
The Markus Video didnt work for me!! What do I need!!!
LMFAO!!!! omg if any of u guys had the pills me and Tigo had...that would have been u guys too!!! after Tigo got kicked out of Mezzanine for "looking way to fucked up" i didnt want to get Sarah, so we left her inside to enjoy the night and went to Mels Diner to kill some time. Inside Mels....me and the other Tigo would keep zoning out into our world every now and then...and that picture says it ALL LMAO!!! Lee threw down some yummy tracks...and i liked the club as well...but i thought it was going to be bit bigger! went back to the hotel afterwards to smoke some pot and get some rest for LP! Woke up the next day had some good breakfast right by Ruby Sky then met the TA's in the park! we made our way to the start of the LP and walked all the way till it stoped! we were mostly at the Spundae float but thanks to Bas i made my way on the anu22 float and had a little word with Desyn as well! after that went back to spundae float and enjoyed the rest of the afternoon! me and Sarah left around 8:55 before the parade eneded so we could find a cab back to the hotel! we did and we went for a quick breather....around 9:45ish we get to Spundae afterparty where we find a HUUUGE line....we find Simon (thank you bro) and cut in line we get inside after like an hour of waiting. we see the usuall suspects and chit chat a bit! i was dead tired at this point so we went upstairs to sit for a bit! apperantly i fell asleep upstairs for about an hour...lol which i dont even remember....then Sarah woke me up and we went downstairs to listen to Ferry! maan i had an amazing time this year as i did last year but...shiiit i cant wait till next year!! Ferry and Carl Cox were by far the best DJ's in my opinion at the LP!! so much energy!! "from new york , london to amsterdamn lets fuck, lets fuck, lets fuck, i wanna rock ur body rock!" wahooo
Sunday was one of the wierdest days of my life i must say! we have some more breakfast and walk to Folsom St to see the Folsom Fair! it was full of dudes in black rubber most with no clothes on...guys jerkin off....if u thought LP was bad....U HAVE NO IDEA!!!! although it was wierd for me and Tigo....im sure Sarah got a kick out of it lol.....well anyway im still a little brain-dead and slept for about 14 hours today...so im gona get some lunch and post some other shit later....
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| Originally posted by Trancelover24 The Markus Video didnt work for me!! What do I need!!! |
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| Originally posted by Trancelover24 The Markus Video didnt work for me!! What do I need!!! |
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| Originally posted by Boomer187 j00 need teh codec http://www.free-codecs.com/download...CoDecS_Pack.htm ACE Mega CoDecS Pack is the answer. |
Teh Boomah himself! Awesome pics!!!!!
Well, I just finished watching that video, It was really cool, But there seems to be something wrong with the video right at the end, With just a couple of seconds left before the end, The video freezes, I think who ever that encoded the video, Shouldve encoded it in another format rather then mpeg-4, There are many issues with MPEG-4 videos these days, If the person who made the video is reading this, Tried encoding video to Divx next time.
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| Originally posted by HotDogWater ... and I got to meet Bas and his girl for the first time. Cool guy (too bad you didn't get to dance with your buddy ). |
crazy glasses. r0x0r b00mars. are they girsl thoguh
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| Originally posted by Noree Sunday was one of the wierdest days of my life i must say! we have some more breakfast and walk to Folsom St to see the Folsom Fair! it was full of dudes in black rubber most with no clothes on...guys jerkin off....if u thought LP was bad....U HAVE NO IDEA!!!! although it was wierd for me and Tigo....im sure Sarah got a kick out of it lol.....well anyway im still a little brain-dead and slept for about 14 hours today...so im gona get some lunch and post some other shit later.... |
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| Originally posted by TigerClaw Well, I just finished watching that video, It was really cool, But there seems to be something wrong with the video right at the end, With just a couple of seconds left before the end, The video freezes, I think who ever that encoded the video, Shouldve encoded it in another format rather then mpeg-4, There are many issues with MPEG-4 videos these days, If the person who made the video is reading this, Tried encoding video to Divx next time. |
I'll read the rest of the posts later, because I just got home and only have time to write my review of the entire trip before I catch up on homework and head to bed...
Friday
We were originally supposed to leave at 9, but that was pushed back to two because the car was in the shop. Unfortunately, when Adam went to get it, they had started working on it just as he was walking in. We ended up taking his van and finally leaving at 4:30. We arrived in Oakland at 4 the next morning.
Saturday
Meet
Nou and DJFreaq wanted to sleep in, but I wanted to meet with my friend and the TAs, so I headed out early. Got to the meet and there was only one person there, I forget his name but he was in the white TA shirt and I think was from back east; the guy who lurks. My friend was there, too; he's going to college in San Fran, so I spent most of the meet chatting with him.
I remember Photo Bot, Sweetcandy Girl, Orbital32, Electrophile, and... that's it, as far as names go. +20 to the guy who wore my Hooj shirt; bastard.
The Parade
... Was mind-blowing. We watched the floats go by, as transients undressed right in front of us. It took forever for Spundae to wander up to the start, so we walked down and walked along with it. Nou stopped in a couple stores, once to get a marker to write on his head and shirt, and once for a belt.
The view down the street was amazing; all of those people just... I dunno, I can't really put it into words. After we made it to the Civic Center we took a rest, had some food, met Psiweaver and a couple of other TAs, then wandered over to A&B; I ended up heading over to Burridge. What pisses me off is that I think I was next to Bas for a while and didn't realize it until I saw him walk away to talk on his cell.
After Burridge we took the Bart back to the hotel to rest for the Afterparty.
I headed back before Nou and DJFreaq again, because I wanted to catch Evil Nine and Cox. I got to the Spundae float right before Ferry got on. FUCKING INSANE SET. Wow. I was a little disappointed though with the U2 remix; nice break, but it lasted too long and didn't carry on when the beat kicked in. Other than that he tore the Spundae float a new one. I would've loved to have seen Cox on the float.
I think I saw DaveT on the float; black shirt, right behind Ferry.
Afterparty
Bittersweet is how I can describe it. I missed Evil Nine's set, because I didn't get in until 10:30. I asked an employee which line I should stand in if I was *physically* holding tickets, and it turns out that he pointed me to the will-call line; 45 minutes wasted.
After I got in, I hurried and caught the last 30 minutes of Cox's set. Jesus fucking Christ did he rock the place. It definitely set the stage for his show up here on Thursday.
Shortly afterwards I get a call from Nou; the line had double-backed around the building, and it didn't look like they would get in until 1am. On top of that, the lot they parked at closed at 3:30. They didn't think it was worth it, and as the only person left that night that I wanted to see was Ferry, I figured it wouldn't be too bad of a deal if I left early.
We got back to the hotel, ordered pizza, etc.
Oh, I saw Boomer when I was standing in the Will Call line. He walked by fast, and I didn't hollar because I figured it would've been odd screaming, "DISCO BOOMEEEEERRRRRR!!!!"
Sunday
We spent half of the day trying to find our way around the city with the most fucked-up streets in the history of, well... shittily-designed-streets. Everywhere we wanted to turn, we couldn't; we had to go multiple blocks out of our way before we could turn.
We checked out Japan Center, then headed over to the Golden Gate Bridge and got a shitload of awesome pictures.
Monday
Headed back north at 4am with just two hours of sleep. Fun.
I'm definitely going back next year. I kinda regret not checking out the entire 18 hours, but it was our first time so fuck-ups are to be expected. Hopefully next year we can take a train down a day early and actually stay in San Fran.
I think there was something about the parade that just hit me. When I came back at 6:45, I was walking towards city hall. It was lit-up real nicely. I dunno... It sounds kinda cheesy but standing there, looking at it, and hearing music from all of the floats just felt fucking amazing.
I'll have all of my photos uploaded tomorrow.
Edit: Mother ******, I see Ferry dropped Punk. Even though it's over-played and sorta (keyword, so don't hate on me ) I've always wanted to be in a crowd when he dropped it. FUCK.
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